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Big Dawg
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 Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 2:12 am Post subject: Greetings from the Biltmore Mansion Asheville NC |
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Big Dawg wrote:
Tired from a day of walking up and down stairs and steep hills. Tomorrow the Blue Ridge Parkway and more fall foliage than one human should have to endure...Oh well...good thing I brought the camera along...LOL
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my_photography wrote:
Wow, the place is huge. How long did you take to walk from photo 1 to the main door of the mansion?
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Big Dawg
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| Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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Big Dawg wrote:
| my_photography wrote: |
| Wow, the place is huge. How long did you take to walk from photo 1 to the main door of the mansion? |
A little over 7 minutes. This is the largest house in the US.
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mo
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| Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 5:58 am Post subject: |
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mo wrote:
What an amazing place...have you got inside photos?
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cardiff_gareth
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| Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 8:47 am Post subject: |
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cardiff_gareth wrote:
Thats a house  Do people live there, one family ?
What do they do, is the owner a Mr B Gates 
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Big Dawg
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| Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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Big Dawg wrote:
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| What an amazing place...have you got inside photos? |
No inside photography allowed.
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Big Dawg
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Big Dawg wrote:
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Thats a house Do people live there, one family ?
What do they do, is the owner a Mr B Gates |
Descendants of the Vanderbilt family still own it but they do not live in it.
Mr. Gates has toured it but he had to tour it like everyone else. No special tour was allowed.
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mo wrote:
Shame about no indoor photography but understandable.Was it as amazing inside as outside?
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Screamin Scott
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Screamin Scott wrote:
I'm gonna get there one day....My wife & I are going up in the North Georgia mountains this weekend to celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary...Hope to get Fall Foliage shots & will be headed to an Apple Festival in Ellijay. My wife wants to take in a Winery tour as well
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